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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bad substitution error in shell script Post 302734809 by agama on Thursday 22nd of November 2012 10:59:47 PM
Old 11-22-2012
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Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
@agama, don' think ksh supports the substring expansion and certainly bash will evaluate the length field so ${infile:0:len-4} is acceptable.
I tried in Kshell -- it needed $(( ... )) and assumed that bash required the same. My bad for not testing with bash.

Thanks.
 

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